Posts tagged as movie trailers
Beirut, "Santa Fe," And The New Movie "Bombay Beach"
Do you like that guy Zach Condon's band Beirut? I sure do. He wrote a very nice new song recently (with especially nice horn parts, as you might expect), and played it in Norfolk, Virginia on Monday. (It's funny that a band named after city makes a song named after a different city. Beirut has done this before, though with a less famous city for the song. Some other band must have done it, too. But can't think of any other examples. Does Boston have a song called "Helsinki?" Did Berlin ever cover Seger's "Katmandu?") Oh, Beirut has a new album coming this summer, which is exciting, and also wrote (along with Bob Dylan!) music for a new movie directed by Alma Ha'rel called Bombay Beach. It's a "documentary-record-cum-drama with dreamlike musical dance numbers" about people who live in a very impoverished area in Southern California, and to judge from the trailer, it looks like it could be really, really good. READ MORE
Kanye Rocks Facebook HQ A Capella
Wow! Interesting things are happening at Facebook. First, the trailer for The Social Network, the movie about how Mark Zuckerberg started the website as a student at Harvard looks way, way more compelling than something with that title and subject matter seems like it would. (It stars Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake and was directed by David Fincher, who is most famous for making movies about serial killers, so, that's really funny!) Now, or yesterday actually, Kanye West comes to Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, stands up in front of group of employees and gives what is probably the greatest rap performance ever staged in a corporate conference room. With a nice suit, too, and without any musical backdrop (and so a little too spoken-word style for my personal taste.) But it should really lay to rest any remaining doubts as to Kanye's talent with words. He is not just a good writer of rhymes. He is great one. As was indicated earlier this summer by the great single, "Power," the half a year he spent out of the public eye seems to have been a fruitful time for him, artistically. READ MORE
Extremely Grumpy Old Man Goes Out On A Violent Robbery Spree
"About two weeks later, on July 1, a man wearing a hat and a bandanna entered Family Loan. 'He was kind of running in and carrying a gun, and told my employees that he didn't want to kill anybody, and for them to get on the floor, and they followed his instructions,' Mr. Chamblee said. 'He asked the young lady for the cash, and she gave it to him.' The gunman ordered the three employees into a bathroom and barred the door with a chair. Then he needed to rest." READ MORE
Why Can't America See 'The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus'?
Here is the UK trailer for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, which, insanely, still does not have a US distributor. How can that be? We are expecting a purchase at the Toronto Film Festival next month-or you will have to go to Europe in October to see it. There are very many reasons that we are getting on the bandwagon for a US release. READ MORE
